Dr. Cogen Bohanec is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Jain Studies at Arihanta Institute and is Affiliate Assistant Professor at Claremont School of Theology (CST). He teaches courses in Sanskrit and other South Asian languages (Pāḷi, Gujarati, Ardhamāgadhī), Jain philosophy, philosophy of religion, and comparative dharma traditions. He has also taught courses on South Asian culture, religions, and Sanskrit at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley.
Dr. Bohanec specializes in the Jain, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, with particular focus on comparative dharma studies, contemplative studies, philosophy of religion, and theo-ethics—including virtue ethics, environmental ethics, and animal ethics. A trained philologist, he is an expert in Sanskrit, Pāḷi, Ardhamāgadhī, and Gujarati grammar, with advanced training in classical Indian literature and linguistic analysis. His scholarship includes over thirty academic publications across these disciplines. He holds a PhD in Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion with an emphasis in Hindu Studies from the GTU, where his research concentrated on ancient Indian languages, textual traditions, and philosophical systems. He also has an MA in Buddhist Studies from the Institute of Buddhist Studies at GTU, where he focused on translating Pāḷi Buddhist scriptures in conversation with the Sanskrit Upaniṣads and their philological contexts.
Dr. Bohanec is the author of Bhakti Ethics, Emotions, and Love in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Metaethics (Lexington Books, 2024), an interdisciplinary study that brings together Hindu theology, ecotheology, ecofeminism, and feminist care ethics within a framework of bhakti-centered virtue ethics and psychology of emotion. He has served as editor for several books in Jain studies, including An Introduction to Jain Philosophy Based on the Writings and Discourses of Ācārya Sushil Kumar by Parveen Jain (DK Printworld, 2019), Contemplative Studies and Jainism (Routledge, 2024), Engaged